Always liked Zaun...knowledgeable, tell it like it is guy...Blue Jays pre/post/between inning telecasts have been a milquetoast, borefest since he left...but...you can't get right fricken hammered and then hit on the Sportsnet female talent...not very good for job security or longevity...the dude has been blacklisted...and if the rumors are true, rightly so.

Evan Solomon was fired by the CBC for his artistic side hustle, but it didn't seem to hurt his career, ending up for several years on CFRB and doing Question Period on CTV. He's now a publisher living and working in New York City and I'm guessing his "art" is still in it. 

Evan Solomon fired from CBC after allegations he used his position to sell art

Coren, now an ordained Anglican minister, has a smug column in the Toronto Star today about Easter.
Remember he started out in the media as a far right wing Christian evangelical, (homophobic, misogynistic), who then became a right-wing Catholic, then began leaning to the centre, then the left, then railing against evangelicals and Catholics and preaching tolerance for HOMMA sek-syoo-als as he calls them, and LGBTQ people.
To paraphrase Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, "anywhere the winds blows, doesn't really matter... to him."

Binson Echorec wrote:

...Avery's gaffe was entirely not her fault...

The mic is always hot, but yes, those 'inside joke' takes should be kept far away from 'production' media pools.
 

Avery Haines made the classic mistake of joking in front of a live mic about how a black lesbian disabled woman would be a perfect CBC anchor.
Dumb remark, and she broke the cardinal rule of broadcasting -- always consider every microphone to be live.
As for Leslie Roberts, he made a brief comeback when he did a radio talk show on 1010 while also being a TV news anchor the very same evening.
That meant as a talk show host he was revealing all his personal political views while supposed to be an unbiased news anchor in the evening.
I always thought that was a bad idea.
Perhaps one of the most notorious broadcasting gaffes that deep sixed a newsman was years ago when a certain CFRB personality was fired after he commented on whether he planned to attend any of the Caribana festivities -- now the Caribbean festival.
He thought he was talking off air when he replied he would not attend Caribana because there were "too many dancing N-words" 
 

newsguy1 wrote:

Perhaps one of the most notorious broadcasting gaffes that deep sixed a newsman was years ago when a certain CFRB personality was fired after he commented on whether he planned to attend any of the Caribana festivities -- now the Caribbean festival.
He thought he was talking off air when he replied he would not attend Caribana because there were "too many dancing N-words" 

I believe you're referring to CKFM's Phil MacKellar, who not only lost his job, but also his life a few months later to a heart attack. 

This article I found in the Globe and Mail is from 24 years ago, but it's a fascinating read in hindsight. It talks about the Avery Haines disaster and how she was trying to cope with it, openly wondering if she would ever get work again. Of course, we know she did, becoming anchor of the now almost defunct W5. 

But many of the others cited in the piece created controversies of their own. 

A great but also terrible little bit of Toronto radio history, that refers to Jeremy Brown, then of Classical 96.3, Brian Henderson and Dick Smyth of CHUM, WABC's Bob Grant and Michael Coren, who by sheer coincidence was on CFRB's afternoon show Monday, presenting a very different image all these years later. 

Also quoted: ex-CFTR newsman Jeff Ansell and then CFRB host Bill Carroll. 

One fascinating fact from the long ago story I didn't know - Avery Haines was actually born in New Mexico and at the time had an American passport. Proving you can still learn new things from an old newspaper column half a century later.

Is this thing on?

Muffaraw Joe wrote:

Dean Blundell got himself bounced from the Biz...I forget what happened, but he's not seeing a morning show  on air anytime soon.

He appears to be doing a podcast on something called Crier Media. The same guy that claimed that podcasters were wannabe radio broadcasters and chomping at the bit to get on the air.



PJ

Paul Jeffries wrote:

Muffaraw Joe wrote:

Dean Blundell got himself bounced from the Biz...I forget what happened, but he's not seeing a morning show  on air anytime soon.

He appears to be doing a podcast on something called Crier Media. The same guy that claimed that podcasters were wannabe radio broadcasters and chomping at the bit to get on the air.

PJ

I think he runs that venture.

Last edited by Tomas Barlow (April 2, 2024 2:38 pm)

Or Matt Lauer?